On 9/18/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/18/07, Ian Tresman ian2@knowledge.co.uk wrote:
I recall Director of NASA's Goddard Space Center, Columbia astronomer and Dartmouth earth scientist, Robert Jastrow, criticizing part of Carl Sagan's assessment of Worlds in Collision, and concluded that "Here Velikovsky was the better astronomer" [The New York Times (December 2, 1979)
I suspect this was intended as a monumental insult to Sagan rather than any praise to Velikovsky.
-Matt
Yeah, unfortunately unless you know the history here (Sagan was monumentally unpopular in his field, as popular as he was to the public), it's easy to be confused.